The poet Julie Danho will read from her work on April 17 when she visits Penn State Behrend as part of the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series. Credit: Photo provided. All Rights Reserved.
Behrend
Smith Creative Writers Reading Series
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM / April 17, 2025
The Smith Creative Writers Reading Series at Penn State Behrend continues Thursday, April 17, with a reading by the poet Julie Danho. Her first full-length collection, “Those Who Keep Arriving,” won the Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press.
The reading, which begins at 6 p.m. in the lobby of Metzgar Center, is free and open to the public. A reception with Danho will begin at 5:30 p.m.
Danho’s chapbook, “Six Portraits,” won the 2013 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award. She also has been awarded fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the MacColl Johnson Fund.
Her poems have appeared in Pleiades, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird and New Ohio Review. Her work also has been featured in The Writer’s Almanac, Poetry Daily and Verse Daily.
Danho holds a master of fine arts degree from Ohio State University. She works as an editor in Providence, Rhode Island.
The Smith Creative Writers Reading Series is produced by Penn State Behrend’s creative writing program, which leads to a bachelor’s of fine arts degree. The program is the only one of its kind at Penn State.
To learn more about the series, visit the Reading Series webpage, or call 814-898-6108.